Princeton University students once gathered in the foyer of this Tudor Revival-style mansion where their law professor, Woodrow Wilson, held classes.

The home was not extravagant when he had it built 129 years ago.

Journals retained by the current owner detail ways Wilson tried to keep costs down. This includes stained glass doors that still separate the foyer and dining room, which Wilson ordered from Sears for $29.

Today, the home is immaculately preserved and refurbished, having undergone a five-year, multi-million dollar renovation.

“He played on what was there and made it even better to the period,” said Barbara Blackwell of Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty. “There were maybe things that Wilson couldn’t have afforded, that he added.”

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